Shanghai has opened its largest public housing for the elderly in a complex with some 250 beds plus tea houses, reading rooms and exercise rooms in four European-style buildings surrounded by a park in the suburb of Nanxiang.

Senior citizens will also receive round-the-clock medical care at the Nanxiang Residential Care Facility provided by doctors from a nearby hospital in this northwestern Shanghai suburb.

The complex cost 12 million yuan ( US $1.45 million).

As one of Shanghai’s oldest suburbs, Nanxiang first opened public housing in the 1980s for the elderly throughout Shanghai and its suburbs. All senior citizens over the age of 100 in Nanxiang who were living in older public housing have been relocated in the new complex.

(eastday.com 06/20/2001)